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Bill Rulon-Miller

@reptiledude.bsky.social

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Checking out BlueSky because family is here and Twitter is no more. He/him. My degree is in history and my passion is in wildlife biology, conservation, and especially Herpetology. If you DM me and I don’t know you I may not answer so don’t get angry.

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 1d

Who’s your favorite Jedi (Wrong answers only)

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for saying that because I really, really needed to read/hear it today

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Some feelings are wrong, actually. If I feel afraid when I see a Black person on the street, that feeling is wrong. If I feel afraid when I see a Muslim person running for mayor, that feeling is wrong. If a cis person feels afraid when they see a trans person, that feeling is wrong.

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 1d

Top panel: a woman looking disgusted that the Blue Jays are winning

Bottom panel: the same woman looking intrigued entertaining the thought that the Blue Jays may win and thus piss Trump off if Canada wins the World Series, which would’ve objectively funny.

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair I think if squigglevision Mulder at least weekly

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 1d

Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a tree-dwelling primate, according to a recent study.

Microplastics found in the stomachs of Amazon tree-dwelling monkeys

Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a…

news.mongabay.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Folks: if you're in town Saturday and want something to go to aside from the No Kings protest, or after, the Portland Defense Fund is holding a street fair on Clinton St in SE.

Flier for the Defense Fund PDX Street Fair in October 18th from 2-7 PM on Clinton St and 25th. Music vendors raffle family friendly. All proceeds to the bail fund.

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Sam Rulon-Miller @rulosa01.bsky.social · 5d

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 2d

'The city that draws the line’: one Arizona community’s fight against a huge data center. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘The city that draws the line’: one Arizona community’s fight against a huge datacenter

Questions grow over water and energy costs of warehouse of computers in Sonoran desert – but will Project Blue be stopped?

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 2d

A Red-Eyed Crocodile Skink, Tribolonotus gracilis. They make fascinating albeit challenging pets.

A mostly black lizard with bright orange-red rings around its eyes stands over a rock shaped water dish in a terrarium full of moss and wood

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 2d

The first snow at the Colorado site means snake season is almost over! Watch til the end though, to see who braves the weather. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5deX...

Snow!

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 2d

I saw someone say that the movements of the sloths in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge are not clunky enough for a xenarthran. To that I say: wrong. Anyway, here's a giant anteater playing with a human ... www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBei...

From the AnimalsBeingBros community on Reddit: Friendly Anteater Playing With Caretaker

Explore this post and more from the AnimalsBeingBros community

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Wednesday

A very large American toad, Anaxyrus americanus, with a light stripe down her back sits on a dirt path that leads to the Schuylkill River

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous villages in Alaska face 'absolute devastation' after Typhoon Halong
Republican senator says Trump administration needs to take climate change effects on Alaska more seriously

www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

www.cbc.ca

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Catherine 🐸 @catebridget.bsky.social · 4d

Sarah Connor watching you use AI for eveything

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 4d

One of the sure signs of fall in the Atlantic states of the U.S. is the more frequent encounters with red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus. These small, lungless salamanders are some of the most common vertebrates in any given Northeastern forest and are out in fall, winter, and spring. #Herps

A red and black salamander next to some leaves

A dark salamander with some red striping amongst a bunch of leaves

A darker salamander among moss and leaves. Darker phases of the Plethodon cinereus are often called “leadbacks” and this is somewhere between the more standard and also common leadback phases.

A red and black salamander hiding in sone leaves, just barely visible. Almost every phenotype of this species, even the brighter ones, can serve as camouflage against the many potential predators they coexist with.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4d

Philadelphia used to have a courtroom under the seats in Veterans Stadium on game days. And the judge who ran it, shockingly, ended up going down for corruption. Factoids don’t get much more “Philly” than that.